In the Australian Open Tennis tournament at Melbourne, the Indian challenge today stormed into the quarterfinals of the Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles categories.In Women's Doubles, the sixth seeded Indo-Russian duo of Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina defeated the Aussie-American combine of Jarmila Gajdosova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 7-5, 6-3. In the Mixed Doubles, fourth seeded Indo-US pair of Rohan Bopanna and Lisa Raymond swept aside the Aussie duo of Matthew Ebden and Casey Dellcqua, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2.Meanwhile, the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza will today clash with the Austrian-Czech combine of Jurgen Melzer and Iveta Benesova in the Mixed Doubles pre-quarterfinal match.
News On AIR | January 23, 2012 12:49 PM